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Historic items found in Albury's art gallery makeover will be displayed in new ...

The gallery, now known as MAMA (Murray Arts Museum Albury), is currently undergoing a $10.5 million makeover. The redevelopment includes an overhaul of the former gallery building and the neighbouring Burrows House. The former gallery was built as ... >> view original

14yo boy fronts court accused of Albury cabbie armed hold-up

A 14-year-old boy has faced court over the armed hold-up of an Albury taxi driver. The 47-year-old female cabbie was confronted by three youths when she was called to Baratta Street in North Albury, early on Wednesday morning. One of the group ... >> view original

Wodonga Medicare moves to Albury

All staff and services from the Medicare office in Wodonga are moving into the existing Albury Service Centre in New South Wales from next Monday, 15 June, the Federal Department of Human Services (DHS) has announced. General Manager of DHS, Hank ... >> view original

Qld man charged after woman 'tortured'

A MAN has been charged after a woman was held captive, tortured and sexually assaulted northwest of Brisbane. POLICE say the 22-year-old woman was detained against her will at a Kingaroy property from Friday night until Saturday morning. >> view original

Question Time: three things we learned today

Three things we learned today from Question Time*. 1. Never make a speech when you can ask a question. Labor cut short questions about the possible payment of cash to people-smugglers by attempting a censure motion against Tony Abbott. It would have ... >> view original

'If I don't jump I will die in here': Ginger Jiang tells of jump from burning unit

A Sydney woman has told an inquest how she was forced to jump from the widow of her high-rise unit as it was consumed by fire. "I thought: 'If I don't jump, I will die in here,' " Yinuo "Ginger" Jiang said of the leap from the unit block in Bankstown in September ... >> view original

Parliament House's Cleaners Have Given Joe Hockey A Giant Toilet Brush After ...

Everyone who isn't a property investor or a mining company knows the government's all-time favourite activity is to cut stuff — health and education funding, the social safety net, protections for journalists reporting on inconvenient topics, you name it — but ... >> view original

Requiring terrorist conviction before revoking citizenship would make law ...

Federal ministers have been advised to argue that requiring a terrorist conviction before revoking an Australian's citizenship would make the law "toothless". An official brief prepared for ministers earlier this month, and obtained by The West Australian ... >> view original

Mother refused bail over alleged high-speed Sydney police chase with children ...

A mother accused of leading police on a high-speed chase in Sydney's south-west with her two infant children in the car has been refused bail and will remain behind bars until at least the end of July. Police allege the 33-year-old was driving through ... >> view original

Search continues for missing Tas man

Police have searched nearly every property in a northern Tasmanian township for a 20-year-old man who went missing a fortnight ago. Inspector Scott Flude says there are only a handful left to be inspected by more than 250 officers and volunteers looking for ... >> view original